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@Qiaochu: Yes. I do.
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Asaf KaragilaJul 25 '11 at 23:18

@Asaf please answer
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Adi DaniJul 25 '11 at 23:21

@Adi: I have not worked with MS Word for over five years now, I think. At most I was just printing .doc files for someone else. I cannot possibly answer, I do believe that this is completely off topic, and should be posted/migrated to tex.stackexachange.com instead.
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Asaf KaragilaJul 25 '11 at 23:23

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You may try OpenOffice or LibreOffice as an intermediary format and export to LaTeX from there. OO can handle MS Equation Editor format, not sure about Mathtype though (didn't work for me the last time I tried), maybe there are some plugins around for that.

Alternatively, if you have Mathtype installed, you can convert all equations to LaTeX in Word and then go OO -> LaTeX for the rest + some text post-processing for the equations.

I know it doesn't work with MS Word 2007's equation editor, since OpenOffice's Writer considers a document with only an equation in it as a blank document. :( However, it may work for older versions of MS Word.
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WernerJul 26 '11 at 2:01